Historical Photographs
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Saul, Max, Monroe Messing, the owners of Manhattan Undergarment Company, 36 East 31st Street, New York, founded in 1936. This picture was taken in 1959. The Messing family owned eleven garment businesses in the Manhattan garment district.
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This is the Messing family circa 1902.
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This photograph of the workforce of the Triangle Underwear Corporation, 112 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, was taken August 29, 1931, at a celebration in honor of the recovery from a serious illness by the company president, Lillian Messing Beckerman. The photograph was taken by the Standard Flashlight Company, 1595 Broadway, New York, New York.
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George J. Messing was born on May 14, 1917, to Mollie Speisman Messing and Joseph Messing in New York, New York. He died on October 25, 2001, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. George's Hebrew name is Yaakov. His name at birth was Jacob. He changed his name to George J. Messing on August 3, 1943, while in the US Army.
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George was named in memory of his uncle Jacob Messing.
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George worked as a pattern maker for Manhattan Undergarment Company (owned by his cousins Saul, Max, and Monroe Messing), 36 East 31st Street, New York City, New York, from 1936 to 1942. George founded Mermaid Underwear Company in the late 1940's. He later worked for Triangle Undergarment (owned by his Aunt Lillian Messing Beckerman) and Majestic Undergarment (owned by his Uncle Benjamin Messing). He worked as production manager with his brother Herman Messing at Carillon Lingerie 1951-1962.
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Manhattan Undergarment Advertisement, 1947
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Manhattan Undergarment Advertisement, 1947
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Manhattan Undergarment Advertisement, 1947
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Photograph owned by Martin Miller. His grandfather Louis Singer is the first person on the left near the window. Taken circa 1920s
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Broadway and 34th Street, site or R.H. Macy’s, Northwest view, 1902, Old York Library Box 5
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Broadway and 36th Street, Southwest view, 1915, Old York Library Box 8
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Broadway looking toward 34th Street, photograph by Don Rice for the Herald Tribune, 25 December 1965, Old York Library Box 8
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6th Avenue and 34th Street from Macy’s, photograph by Irving Underhill, 1910, Old York Library Box 10
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9th Avenue and 39th Street, South view, photograph by Don Rice for the Herald Tribune, 3 February 1955, Old York Library Box 19
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Broadway and 42nd Street, South view, no date, Old York Library Box 8
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Fifth Avenue and 40th Street, 1913, Old York Library Box 9
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40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, photograph by Nat Fein for the Herald Tribune, 2 February 1958, Old York Library Box 5
